My thanks especially to Tom Poczman and also to Ralph Jaeger for their
help. In a relatively simple process, I am now able to allow each of my
virtual hosts their own search engine for their site only.

thanks much

Dan Barber

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Tom Poczman wrote:

>
> Make duplicates of the following files from the original files to create a
> search database and conf files for each virtual server.
>
> ie call them
>
> ......./bin/rundig_NEWSERVER
> ......./conf/htdig_NEWSERVER.conf
> ......./webroot/search_NEWSERVER.html (where the html search file is)
>
> Make a db dir for the new server ie db_NEWSERVER, and modify all the above
> files to suit the new configs. This is how you can have multiple db's for
> specific areas in your webroot area, or for virtual servers. The only prob
> I can see is that the ....../htdig/common/ dir is just that a common area,
> where all your headers and footers will be the same for any virtual
> server. The only way around this that I can see is to effectively install
> another copy of htdig, in another area and have that common area dedicated
> to the virtual server.
>
> PS - you MUST make a db dir BEFORE you try and run the rundig command to
> create the database, otherwise you will get an error - it doesnt create it
> on the fly as it reads the htdig_NEWSERVER.conf file.
>
> I have mutiple databases on one server, and have a reasonably generic
> "common" area for the headers and footers.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> cheers
> Tom
>
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, T's Mailing Lists wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, root wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My site hosts a large number of virtual sites. I have only recently been
> > > able to get htdig to work on my main host, but can't find any
> > > documentation on how to set it up for use by the virtual hosts.
> > >
> > > I would like to have each host keep its own db files and be searchable
> > > only within its domain. Is this possible without installing htdig for each
> > > site? If anyone could point me in the right direction...
> >
> > As far as I remember you can restrict the search to certain patterns such
> > as http://www.example.com when calling the cgi. Have a look at the docu.
> >
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